| 释义 |
cosmotron|ˈkɒzməʊtrɒn|
[f. cosmo- + -tron.]
A particle accelerator; spec. the proton-synchrotron, designed to produce 3000 MeV protons, which was completed in 1952 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S.A.
1949Newsweek 7 Feb. 29 Foundations have been laid for a giant ‘cosmotron’ of record voltage. 1950Times 20 Dec. 5/4 A cosmotron is an experimental instrument by which a magnetic field of high intensity accelerates particles torn from the nuclei of atoms. 1956Nature 10 Mar. 470/2 The particle current has steadily decreased as the energy has increased—milliamperes for the 1940 cyclotron, micro⁓amperes for the 1943 synchrocyclotron, millimicroamperes for the present cosmotron and bevatron. 1967Condon & Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) ix. ix. 250/2 The radius of the proton orbit in the Cosmotron is 30 ft. |